The Numberphile Podcast

The Importance of Numbers - with Tim Harford

Sep 12, 2020

47:29

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How Important Is It That People Have a Good Understanding of Numbers?

02:30

Is Your Views on Climate Change Are Not Going to Change the Climate?

02:02

How to Make the World Add Up M Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

02:32

Introduction

3min

How Important Are Numbers?

2min

How Did You Become an Economist?

4min

Communication, Communication, I've Got No Idea

2min

You Shouldn't Quit Economics

2min

What's Economics?

1min

What Did You Think You Were Going to Do?

6min

Are You Writing It Because You Love It?

3min

How Important Is It That People Have a Good Understanding of Numbers?

3min

10.

Is Your Views on Climate Change Are Not Going to Change the Climate?

2min

11.

We Could Improve the School Curriculum and Journalists Could Do a Better Job

2min

12.

Mistakes Are Fun

5min

13.

How to Make the World Add Up M Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

3min

14.

The Numbers Will Only Take You So Far

2min

15.

How to Rewrite a Pandemic Book

2min

16.

Do You Think It Makes It Easier or More Difficult?

2min

17.

Do You Still Play Games?

3min

Economist Tim Harford on the importance of numbers and statistics.

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Tim's book How to Make the World Add Up - signed copies on Maths Gear

Tim Harford books on Amazon

Tim's video on Numberphile

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